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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bury .
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Examples
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This done euery man burieth his dead, some in Sepulchres made for the purpose, and other that haue no suche preparacion, in their strongest wall at home in their house, setting vp the cofre ther tabernacle wyse.
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Who taught the ant to bite every grain of corn that she burieth in her hill, lest it should take root and grow?
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The Dame maketh shroud the knight, for whom she is full sorrowful, and on the morrow hath mass sung and burieth him.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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Who taught the ant to bite every grain of corn that she burieth in her hill, lest it should take root and grow?
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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This done euery man burieth his dead, some in Sepulchres made for the purpose, and other that haue no suche preparacion, in their strongest wall at home in their house, setting vp the cofre ther tabernacle wyse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I say, then, that ye should flee avarice, using your riches in such manner, that men say not that your riches are buried, but that ye have 'em in your might and in your wielding; for a wise man reproveth the avaricious man, and saith thus in two verse: Whereto and why burieth a man his goods by his great avarice, and knoweth well that needs must he die, for death is the end of every man as in this present life.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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